Laravel Eloquent phpDoc Generator

Quickly generate the phpDoc for your Eloquent Model. Make your Eloquent super friendly with IDEs (eg PHPStorm).

And maintaining the phpDoc of your models don't have to be a pain in the ass, should be:

• Fun
• Fast
• Reliable

And, welcome to Eloquent phpDoc Generator, which going to help you to achieve the 3 points above 🎉

What will Eloquent phpDoc Generator will generate?

• Table name
• Table columns (with correct types - including Casting types 😎)
• Model relationships
• Model attributes/accessors

Available For / Requirements

• v2.x: Laravel 11, PHP 8.2+.
• v1.x: Laravel 9/10, PHP 8.0, 8.1.

Install

Install as dev-dependencies is enough, since you are only going to use this command on local/development env.

composer require sethphat/eloquent-docs --dev

Laravel auto-discovery will automatically do the magic for you.

Use the command

php artisan eloquent:phpdoc "App\Models\User" # view only
php artisan eloquent:phpdoc "App\Models\User" --write # view & write to file
php artisan eloquent:phpdoc "App\Models\User" --short-class # new option - use short class instead of full namespace path

# from v1.2.0
php artisan eloquent:bulk-phpdoc "app/Models/*.php" # bulk generation (force write mode)

Result:

====== Start PHPDOC scope of App\Models\User
/**
* Table: users
*
* === Columns ===
* @property int $id
* @property string $name
* @property string $email
* @property \Carbon\Carbon|null|null $email_verified_at
* @property string $password
* @property string|null $remember_token
* @property \Carbon\Carbon|null $created_at
* @property \Carbon\Carbon|null $updated_at
*
* === Relationships ===
* @property-read \App\Models\Emails[]|\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection|null $emails
* @property-read \App\Models\UserDetails|null $userDetail
*
* === Accessors/Attributes ===
* @property-read string $full_name
* @property-read string $is_admin
* @property-read string $user_type
* @property-read int $total_salary
* @property-read mixed $levels
* @property-read mixed $first_name
* @property-read mixed $last_name
*/
====== End PHPDOC scope of App\Models\User
Wrote phpDoc scope to /<my-path>/app/Models/User.php
Thank you for using EloquentDocs!

Best practices

• Use $casts in your model, in order to help EloquentPhpDoc generate better types for you (array, date, datetime,...)
• For get*Attribute accessor, always declare the return type

Note: for Eloquent new Attribute class utilize the data via Closure, making it impossible to acquire the return types. For this case, EloquentDocs will always return mixed

Release logs

• v1.0.0
  • First version
  • View & Update phpDoc for a single Model at a time
• v1.1.0
  • --short-class
  • Fixed some issues
• v1.1.1
  • Fixed issue when generating a table that has enum column
• v1.1.2
  • Fixed issue when first-time install the library that made Laravel discovery went wrong.
• v1.1.3 & v1.1.4
  • Improved the indents
  • Supported Laravel 10
  • Deprecated Laravel 8
  • Deprecated PHP 8.0
• v1.2.0
  • New command to bulk generate from a given model path.
    • php artisan eloquent:bulk-phpdoc "app/Models/*.php"
  • Fixed an issue where accessors/attributes being generated as snake_case. Should be camelCase.
• v2.0.0
  • Supports Laravel 11 + PHP 8.2/8.3
  • DBAL as required dependencies
  • Better date/datetime parsing (Carbon & Carbon immutable)
  • Better boolean parsing

Contribute to the library

Feel free to fork this library and sending a PR here.

Note: all the contributions need to follow PSR-12 and cover everything under unit testing.

LICENSE

MIT License

Made by

• Seth Phat
• And contributors

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